"Cryptocurrency" is a term that was hardly ever used a decade ago - and today, it is making the headlines pretty often. Most of the times, it's used in relation to Bitcoin and Ethereum, two of the best-known such currencies out there, which continue growing month after month, breaking one record after another. One might compare its growth to that of minimum deposit casinos back in the...

The dictator thinks wearing military fatigues will intimidate Ugandans. He forgets that Idi Amin was always in uniform but that didn't help in the end. Photo: Facebook.

Desperate measures are usually signs that the last acts of a show are unfolding before the curtain drops. There are many lessons to be absorbed in Uganda by the recent eclipse of President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

In 2000 Zimbabwe's Mugabe abandoned the market led economy for a program of state-led economic...

Roy Moore. He still claims God will have final say in vote tally.Photo: Gage Skidmore-Flickr

Roy Moore's bid to shrug off serious sex allegations and ride Donald Trump's coattails to the U.S. Senate ended in disaster last night when Black Voters turned out in overwhelming numbers to reject him.

Exit polls showed Doug Jones gaining the support of 97% of Black women voters and 93% of Black males, propelling a Democrat to the Senate from Alabama for the first time in 25...

The change in the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by President Trump won't stop State Attorneys General from enforcing consumer protection a coalition headed by New York's Eric T. Schneiderman told the president in a letter.

“The CFPB has been a critical partner in protecting American consumers and holding fraudsters accountable. It deserves a leader...

Roy Moore. Wife Kayla says'We have many friends that are black, and we also fellowship with them in church and in our home.' Photo: Twitter

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Today's Alabama Senate special election is the latest contest to be called a “referendum” on American President Donald Trump. Democrat candidate Doug Jones is neck and neck with evangelical Christian favorite and accused sexual...

CEMOTAP will begin to bring the year to an end with its annual pre-Kwanzaa celebration where families are treated to a delightful feast and all of the children a given a bag of gifts. On Saturday December 16th at 2:00 P.M. CEMOTAP will open its doors at 135-05 Rockaway Blvd. in South Ozone Park to its members and friends to its Umoja, unity, celebration.

The Economist takes on the once-Western-darling. Screen shot from magazine

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Almost the entire commentary excoriating aged despots in African countries in the current issue of The Economist magazine (December 9, 2017 issue) is devoted to Uganda's U.S.-backed dictator of 32 years...

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Over the last few days, during this observance of the first anniversary of the execution of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, were now hearing chants of Weve got to fight back and We are ready for war.

That weve reached this dangerous place in the fight against police abuse was...

Last week a New York Police Department officer was suspended after a video emerged showing him kicking a suspect being arrested, now a group of NYPD officers are being investigated for bringing down Sandra Amezquita a...